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A COSTLY LUXURY.
An Estimate of the Peoples Annual To-
baccO Bill.

An Estimate of the Peoples Annual To-
bacco Bill.
Statistics are often presented showing the
enormous size ofthe nations liquor bill, but
few persons comparatively are aware how
much is spent ON another luxury-tobacco.
The american Grocer has made careful es-
innate of the nations tobacco bill for 1886,
and places it at $3.50, SOC, 000-about So A per
capita. As not more than one-fifth of the
population, probably, makes use of the
weed, the average expenditure of each user
is about Sl7 per year, an amount that put at
compound interest for fifty years at 6 per
cent. would buy q house and lot.
OF course this amount is nothing like so
large as that spent for hquor-only little
over one-third, in fact, for the nations an
nual liquor bill Is about 500, OO0, O00-but
still sufficiently formidable sum for an ar
ticle that is, to say the least, not an absolute
necessity of life. More money is spent for
tobacco than for sugar; almost twice as
much as for those other luxuries, tea and
coffee, and two and a-half times as much as
is spent upon schools.
For cigarettes alone the sum of Sc, 500, 600
isspent--and wasted for, of all the ways OF
using tobacco cigarettesmoking is the most
injurious, the most insidious, the most dis
gushing and offensive. Twenty million dol
lars are spent upon smoking tobacco and
$5O0O0,000 upon chewing tobacco-so the
chewers have more to answer for than the
pipe-smokers. Of course the largest item in
the list is for cigars. More money is burned
up in the shape of tobacco than is consumed
by all the accidental fires in the United
States, and tobacco costs almost as much as
fuel
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ONE AND TWO.
If you to me be cold,
OrI be false to YOU.

If you to me be cold,
Or be false to you,
The world viii go on, think,
Just as it sed to do;
The clouds will flirt with the moon,
The sun will kiss the sea,
The wind to the trees will whisper,
And laugh at you and me.
But the sun will not shine so bright,
The clouds will not seem so white
To one as they will to two;
So think you had better be kind,
And had best be true,
And let the old love go on
sJust as it used to do
If the whole of page be read,
If book be finished through,
Still the world may read on, think,
Just as it used to do;
For other lovers will con
The pages we have passed,
And the treacherous gold of the binding
Will glitter unto the last.
But lids have lonely look,
And one may not read the book
It opens only to two;
80 think you had better be kind,
And had best be true,
And let the reading go on
Just as it used to do.
If we who have sailed together
Fit out of each others view,
The world will sail on, think,
Just as it used to do.
And we may reckon by stars
That flash from different skies,
And another of loves pirates
May capture my lost prize.
But ships long time together
Can better the tempest weather
Than any other two;
So think you had better be kind
And had best be true,
That we together may sail
Just as we used to do.
- Bosk0,, lyLobe
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The trees begin to turn little yellow.
He finds they need additional food
which the soil does not supply. Some
where@on his place he has found
dried-up lake or pond. He digs up the
bed with his shovel and finds it full of
decayed vegetable matter. He loads 1t
on a wagon, hauls it into small heaps,
throws quick lime over them to ferment
the sourness usual in such decay, then
takes it to the trees and scatters this-now
muck-about the roots; lastly he hoes 1t
into the ground so the roots may reachit
promptly "Whe-ewp p he exclaims, and
thinks of the old maxim mo cross, no
crown" He would philosophize, but
finds that while so engaged the weeds
are again stretching skyward.
Then rebegins the same round OF toll
just given, with many more details added
of which he never dreamed He looks at
his wife; she is cheerful or tries to be
and swelters away in the hot kitchen
until she discovers that early morning
and sunset are the only times for cook
ing in Florida. 1t isn't long before acold
lunch appears upon the noontime table
and after little more adjusting she can
find time to sit down and fan herself
with her apron. The children in almost
aboriginal scarcity of garments roll
about the ground in the shade of some
live-oak unless the advent of a stranger
forces them to hurried and modest
scamper About evening, our serious
friend, very serious by this time, lights
his pipe and tries to think if he is happy,
or to discover signs of progress.
He has been in the State say year;
his little trees have more top to them;
look fresh and healthy. He has sweet
potatoes growing and perhaps some corn.
Has had garden in IT'S season, and some
how has managed to feed his family and
keep reasonably cheerful. He is honest
with himself, however, and acknowledges
that this he could not have done without
drawing slyly on his dwindling savings
Now the question arises, "W hat will be
the ..esult of next years work ?" "Can
manage to support self and family wholly
on the results of my labors here?" He
thinks probably he can. He has discov-
cred cheap method of fertilizing and
cultivation which will also give pleasant
employment to his wife and children
and easily will provide fresh meat for the
table. He has heard that chicken raising
in connection with grove solves the
question of light "soil working" to a
great extent and fertilizes powerfully.
Then he thinks of his sweet pota-
toes-which grow easily and abund-
antly-his garden, his corn, his melons /;
the chances he has of selling these things
and the family supply he can derive from
them, and concludes that he will try it
for another year at any rate. So he lays
aside his pipe, creeps under his mosquito
netting and drops into the sleep of the
weary. Y. nj. D.
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copyrighted, 1871

OcALA, FLA, Apl 20 = The visitor
to Florida is apt to think that its
title of ''the Land of Flowers" is
an outrageous misnomer, for except
in the hummock lands, where great
snarls of oak, chestnut, magnolia,
cypress and other trees are woven to-
gether by luxuriant wool of blossomed
and fragrant vines, there are but few
flowers to be seen.
Almost any of our daisy-starred north
ern leas present more picturesque
appearance in their floral abundance.
But this may be due-yery likely is due
to the background of rich velvety sward.
The predominant surface of this breezy
peninsula is sand. The grass grows in
thin wiry stems, and after alternating
itself beyond it's primal inch, gets very
wan from its familiarity with the sun.
Nevertheless, it is delightful country
If you are provided with few sight
drafts--and you may settle yourself for a
novel and in many ways agreeable
experience.
A great deal depends upon circum-
stances of course. If you are transient
visitor, intent only on crowding as much
experience in your brief holiday season
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HOW TO HAVE PANsIEs.
The Way Their Life May be Prolonged
Into tho Summer.

The Way Their Life May be Prolonged
Into the Summer.
have had, in the heat of summer, where
the sun lay till late in the afternoon, pallsics
an inch and three-quarters across from seed
two years old from the florist and ten-cent
package in the beginning. use mixture
of COW manure, partly rotted forest leaves,
and wood ashes. Three quarts of ashes to q
bushel of manure is enough, but two-thirds
of the soil of the bed of the manure and
leaves is not too much for pansies. 1t makes
no difference whether the manure is fresh or
rotted, that / can see, but it is best TO have
it buried with a couple of inches of rich soil
over it in which to set the seedlings.
A mulch of grass or leaves round the plants
will keep the ground from drying, but If it is
not rainy they should be watered every
night think it is best to plant the seeds in
a large box filled with the mixture men,
toned, and in the same proportion; as the
seedlings are rather slow in growth, they can
be cared for easier in this way when small
Young plants beginning to bloom, covered
with evergreen boughs during the winter
bloom best in spring and early summer for
me. And seeds planted as early as possible
in the spring do best for late summer and
fall. Pinching out the hearts of the plants
when small will make them branch more
freely.
During the summer the size Of the flowers
can be kept up by watering two or three
times week with water in which COW ma
nurc has been soaked till the color OF strong
coffee you can hardly give them too much OF
it; if it gets ON the leaves rinse them with
clean water. Pick off the faded blossoms; if
you want seed tie a rag around the largest,
finest blossoms, and leave but one seed-pod
on q plant till ripe Vick's Magazine.
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HID IN THE HOLE.
Sea Captains Little Bill for stowaways
on His Vessel.

n sea CApthinS Little Bill for StOWRWnys
on His Vessel.
Captain Jones, of the johnson steamship
Oranmore, had an experience with stowa-
ways on his last trip from Liverpool to Bal
hmore. He left congratulating himself that
he had 20 deadheads on board to be fed at
his expense, which is made necessary by the
fact that the captains grub" their crews.
The first twenty hours had passed when one
stowaway came out to hunt something to
eat. AT once search was made for others
through the cargo, but without success.
Next day two others rose from the dark
depths of the hold, followed by two more on
the third day. The stowaways caused Cap
tain Jones to cast up their probable cost on
passage of from sixteen to twenty days,
and he had balanced his account and gotten
them down to plenty of hard work and a
meagre allowance when, on the fifth day, he
was faced with another, robust son of Dub
lin. Captain Jones was nineteen days on the
passage and it was natural for him every
morning to ask if any more stowaways had
been found. That those stowaways worked
there is no denial, but all the same Captain
Jones is out grub bill of six men for fifteen
days, in addition to paying a fee of fifty
cents head for their entry into the United
States. An emigrant agent took charge of
them, and the last salutation given to the
master of the Oranmore was Goodbye. Mr..
Jones; much Obliged p which came from
one who gave his age as forty-nilfe. Vessels
entering English ports with stowaways on
board give the master the option of having
them jailed or letting them go free.
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He buys some land. He thinks forty
acres are enough, and pays usually $50
per acre for it, Then he clears, we will
say, five acres and has it fenced, which
costs altogether about $125. This
is plowed next and planted with FIVE
year-old trees, for which he pays So so
per acre for blowing and forty-five cents
for tree and planting, usually sixty trees
to the acre.
In the meantime the carpenters-and
there are numbers of them, first-class
workmen, too-have erected dwelling
at cost of about $3.50. Not mansion,
but very comfortable four-roomed house
of the weather-battened description. He
buys native horse-pony we would call
tia few farming implements, sends for
his family, and commences his struggle
for independence. Presently he RECEIVERS
from the Authorization that an orange
grove may be planted and permitted to
grow as it pleases. He finds obnoxious
and exhausting weeds growing luxuri-
antly. These he is compelled to destroy
with light-running harrow orplow, but
he derives some sweet from the bitter in
the thought that If his land is capable of
producing such gigantic weeds it can
grow other and useful products as well.
So his pillow turns this rank growth under
the soil, and its decaying rankness sends
vigor to the hungry roots of the growing
Seeding.
Then he discovers that an useless lat
eral growth atfiicts his trees. He con-
suits authority and finds this must be
stopped. So he goes over his. five-acre
grove of 300 trees and pruness them of
these suckers.
Next it is evident he cannot pillow near
the trees as it destroys the surface roots.
So over the grove, about each tree, he must
travel, hoeing circle about each vary
ing in dimensions according to the size
of the trunk. Then he notices that
the sun bakes the soil into a hard
crust through which the roots. with
difficulty, penetrate. Now he is forced
to go into the pine woods and rake
the fallen needles into heaps, then
spread them about the ground near the
trees. This shading--called mulching-
preserves an even temperature and al
lows moisture to collect. He will feel
inclined now to sit down and take rest.
So ne may breathe little more rejuven-
alton from the atmosphere, But this
won't do
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u don't wonder men go down before a
weii-dressed woman" said friend of mine
theother day. We had just met an acouaiut-
ance, in the street, without at first recopn;z-
ing her She was badly dressed because a.
!ne snow. Only the day before she had come
blue fox fur, and had eclipsed every other
woman in the room. We all said. tHow
pretty she ISL In her ugly coat she LOOK 81
positively plain Only one face in q thon-
sand has the supreme charm of beauty
which shines through all vicissitudes q
dress. London World. '''' '''''' y
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THE YACHT THISTLE.



fachtsmen are not little amused at the
supreme confidence manifested by Mr.. James
Bell, owner of the Scotch cutter Thistle.
whom the cable reports as asserting that his
vessel was not built to win the American cup
alone, but to defeat the best yacht the Ameri-
cans can produce. The winning of the cup
he considers mere incidental matter Cor
corning the Trek, the English champion. he
lntimates that if he did not believe the This
Tie superior to her he would sell the latter for
old junk and, as for the Genesta and Gala
tea, he is equally certain he can beat them
WITH va, ease. The Thistle, he also says, will
channel match on the 2Sth inst, after which
she Will come over here with racing mast
6ooms and topmast dashed to the deck
Before leaving, it is understood she will NH
liciy challenge the Trek for the Cape Nav and
Genesta. - s'as
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failing health has serious eyes for every
thing.
How does he feel?
Usually dreadfully blue. And why?
He has been perusing one of those
miserable, misleading prospectuses of
the willy land agent. In that everything
was luxuriance, beautiful, splendid. He
was almost prepared to struggle through
obstacles of tropical verdure and clear
his way through magnificent abundance.
What does he find9
A soil, the greater part of which re-
sembles that of New Jersey, an almost
gsss WITH Afshen axa aa p s
formation of heavy hummock growth al
ready mentioned. He sees many beau
tiful inland lakes some large ones on
which diminutive streams ply their way
and innumerable small ones well stocked
with fish in nearly every instance. He
watches with delight the balmy, health
giving atmosphere. He examines the
soil. 1t is not very rich, the valuable
part OF 1t consisting mainly of a few
inches OF light top dressing. But then
he looks around him. Directly before
his eyes is beautiful orange grove and
the trees are full of the golden fruit
Here are cornfields Not as abundant as
Northern stalks. But still il is corn and
pretty good corn, too, he discovers.
He sees long rows of sweet potato
vines. He exhumes potato. 1t is large,
solid, and juicy. Then he discovers
watermelons, scuppernong grapes,
breathes little more of the atmosphere
and fares better.
All this is not so bad.
True, he does not see the land agents
extravagant promises materialize, but he
finds enough for any reasonable man.
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A celebrated man knew how to make
most excellent cup of coffee. A Unknown
minister wrote TO him asking for a recipe.
of the letter was the following manifestation
of stupendous conceit: 'Thope that this is a
genuine request and not surreptitious mode
of occurring my autograph" To which the
minister replied; Accept my thanks for the
recipe for making coffee. wrote in good
faith, and in order to convince you of that
infinitely prize, but which is Of no value to
me--your autograph. - Christian Advocate.
Work has been begun ON San Joses (Cal)
n.nn L
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IN FLORIDA.
THE FACTS ABOUT PLANTING AN
ORANGE GROVE.

What People Who Settle in the Tropical
State Must Expect to go ThrOugh-The
Experiences of an Immigrant from the
North Truthfully Told.
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Work has been begun ON San Jose's (Cal.)
$500. 200 hotel.
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war, and already low murmuring growls
of thunder reverberated among the ser
rated ridges beneath us.
"Throw over more ballast" commanded
my rutfianly companion.
l flung out, with some misgivings, the
remainder of the last bag of sand and
small pebbles, but the Defiance did not
rise with its former buoyancy. Much
gas had been lost. The once smooth sur
face of the silk, painted in gaudy stripes
of pink and blue, was wrinkled now,
and fluttered loosely in irregular fes-
toons. More than once IL seemed as
though we must be dashed against some
one OF the towering peaks above which
the balloon slowly revolved.
Crash after crash, peal upon peal, rang
out the deep diapason of the thunder
echoed from glen TO glen, and from ridge
to ridge, while far and wide the light
ming sent its flaming arrows across
the darkling sky. How strange It
was to see beneath us those forked
shafts OF dazzling light, to hear from
beneath us those awful rolls of heavens
own terrible artillery, and to float help
lessly above the raging tempesti
Day had broken; the sun was rising,
red and angry in the stormy Eastern
sky, and a current of air waited the bal
loon rapidly forward; could dimly dis
tinguish forest, and meadow, and spurs
Of wood-clothed hills, lying to the south
ward of us. The snowy peaks, rosy-pink
in the morning radiance, were being
left behind us.
''Hurrahl as you say, you other island
ers," cried out the galley-slave trium-
phantly as he too scanned the landscape
"Vive la joiei We're well across the
frontier now, and Pierre Paul Grincheux
is as safe as any other Frenchman from
the odious summons to trudge back to
the chain-gang, and the rattan of the
garde-chiourmel Thank your stars, Eng
lishman--"
A stunning peal of thunder cut short
his boastful discourse, and as 1t did so
the Defiance heeled over, and was driven
like dead leaf before the gale, by the
sudden rush of a mighty wind, that bore
us almost to the surface of the ground,
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They Conhicted.

4 man named Charles III. Con
stance went out from New York TO
Butte City, recently, and started a
hotel. He tackled up long list Of
"Rules Of This House" which limited
at the bottom that 1.-THE above would
be rigidIy enforced" and he was on
ly just putting the hammer away
when a prominent citizen came in
and showed his hat on the back Of
his head and began reading them.
He studied them attentively for
about minute and turned around
and said;
"Rules Of this house, hey strang
er?n
Eyes, sir; yes, sir; rules Of this
house. Can | do anything for you
to-day"
"Bove will be rigidly enforced"
hey? Hev / got all right?'
"Er-yes, sir, suppose they'll be
enforced, IN a measure at least, sir"
evil, hey, will they When We
goin' ter begin euforcin' Of 'em p
"Why, my dear sir, you see per
haps | won't enforce those rules at
all-not if they conflict with any
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ENJOY LIFE.

What truly beautiful world we live inl
Nature ga~e US GRANDEUR of mountains glens
AID oceans, and thousands OF means Of EN-.
joyment We can desire no better when in
perfect health; but how o ten do the majori-
ty OF people feel like giving it up djshs4rten-
ed, discouraged and worn out with disease,
when there is no occasion for this feeling, as
every sufferer can easily obtain satisfactory
proof, that GsEgS5 AUGUST FLowsR, will
make them tree from disease, as whsa horn
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint are The a.
rect causes OF seveuty.dve per ceat. of such
maladies as Biliousness, Indiges lion, Sick
Headache. Costivene5s. Nervous Prostratiol,
Dizziness Of the Head, sPalpitaton of the
Heart and other distressing symptoms.
Three doses Of AUGUST FLOWER will prove
its wond rfal effect Sample bottle, 10 c,s
cow
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Some amusing stories are told Of
the wit and wisdom of London school
children, A class of boys in a
Board School were being examined
orally in Scripture. The history of
Moses had for some time been q
special study, and one of the exam
iners asked
What would you say OF the gen
eral character of Moses"
"He was meek" said one boy.
Grave" said another.
Learned" added third boy.
"Please sir" piped pale-faced,
neatly-dressed lad, The was a gen.
tleman."
"a gentleman, asked the examin-
eg. "How do you make that OUT"
The boy proIptly replied, in the
same thin, nervous voice, "please
sir, when the daughters of Jethro
went to the we'll TO draw water, the
shepherds came and drove them
away and Moses ,helpled the daugh-
tiers Of Jethro, and said to the shep
herda. Ladies first, please, gentle
men"
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Tire Faithful Employees Duty.

Much is said about the wrong of
eye service, as it effects the employ
err; but as these thoughts are es-
pecially Fer hired help, it is better to
look at this subject from the purely
selfish standpoint which an employee,
careful only of his own interests,
might take II hired help try to do
just as little as possible, not only
does this fact become known, but it
quickly forms a habit which cannot
easily be overcome. The conditions
of success anywhere are push, enter
prise and n deslre to do all that is
possible.
Men who are accustomed to hold
back, fearing they will do too much
Tor Their employer, learn slowness
and hardness so thoroughly that
they cannot drop these habits even
when they come to work for them
selves. To work heartily and cheer.
fully for an employer is, we believe,
equally important for both parties;
but if there is any ditference,it should
be of greater Importance to the work
man, whose habits for life are being
formed, rather than for the employ
er, who, at the close of season, if
not before, may discharge the un-
faithful empIoye, and hire anotherin
his place boston Budget
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thing"
"Well, they conflict, every one of
'em."
"Of course, of course, but what
with ?"
"They conflict with me, you
bleached. white livered New
Yorker; every one Of 'em conflicts
with me personally Rules spiked
up around always conflict with me-"
"I-I-just hold on minute, sir,
and I'll take those rules right down."
mo you won't stranger, III tend
to them air rules myself. I'm goin'
to exercise my six-shoo:er little in
this 'ere oflice-shalLI pint at you
or them rules z"
4Oh, aim at the rules, of course !;
point it right at the rules That's
what | put them up for-ror guests
to shoot at-shoot all you want to,
don't mind me-" and he put his
hands over his ears and crawled be
hind the safe.
Then it sounded as if large iron
clad had sailed into tbs office and
was practicing on the. clock with a
fourteen-inch gun. After which the
prominent citizen walked away and
his spurs had harsh, metallic ring
as he went out the door and Mr..
Constance crawled from behind the
safe and went and picked what was
left Of the card board out of the
wall.-i)akot1 Bell